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(131,370 posts)and that should not be permitted; the employers should be required to pay a living wage.
raging moderate
(4,317 posts)If you are in this position, don't blame yourself. And don't lose hope. Keep looking for a chance at a better income. Meanwhile, enjoy a steak/coke/birthday cake/box of strawberries (if you can see a way to do it). You have just as much right as anybody to those things.
IADEMO2004
(5,575 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Millennials are awesome.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)"Working full time on food stamps" is an oxymoron.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)in lands that we have never heard of.
Give it a rest with your bleeding heart drivel. The establishment is not pleased by it.
Vote for Hilly and she will fight for you...not.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,379 posts)one implication is that anyone working part time, anyone unable to work, anyone laid off, they are leeches.
If you're looking for leeches, look among the billionaire class.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)No one working full time and supporting up to one normal dependent should be living in poverty or need food stamps.
"If Colonel Sanders isn't going to pay the lady behind the counter enough to live on, then Uncle Sam has to, and I for one am getting a little tired of helping highly profitable companies pay their workers." ~Bill Maher
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)What kind of jobs are these? Mostly not high enough paying ones.
The Meritocracy/Plutocracy is good at this sleight of hand chicanery.
I wonder why so many just cannot process this, are apparently disinterested in drilling down from the slick packaged news on the MSM.
TIME TO PANIC
(1,894 posts)Most of these employers hire only part-time, so they don't have to provide benefits.
They are beyond greedy, they are sadistic!
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Among the Four Freedoms that FDR was talking about, was the Freedom from Hunger.
You don't bother to vote if you're too busy trying to keep from starving.
Yet, you will never hear about the homeless or the hungry from her.
She acts like they don't exist!!
Go Bernie!!